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03 Aug 2015 8:33:58am

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But Alex, the High Court, in a previous case, has already determined there is no 'wall of separation' in Australia.

The point you are struggling to make though, concerns the 'religious test', which is not quite the same.

If you read those High Court documents, you will see that the case was always, primarily, concerning the manner in which the Commonwealth funded a program, and that, conveniently, made use of the NSCP funding.

In truth, it could have been taken by someone else over another Commonwealth program, similarly funded.

However, the point worth remembering is why the Commonwealth sought to do it the way they did, which can only have been to circumvent any chance of falling foul of s.116.

If Williams gets up, it will be because the Commonwealth got cocky.

A point from someone purporting to be the long dead George Hignibotham above- states can apply a religious test now. There is nothing in a state constitution to prevent that happening.